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In its Greek form, Judea, it was applied to just Jerusalem and its immediate surroundings.
Pilate, who was in real life so cruel that the Roman authorities had to remove him from the procuratorship of Judea, is, in Jesus' account of things, the detached Gentile observer who believes that the "King of the Jews" has done no wrong, and should be released.
Pilgrims came from all over the Roman (and, later, Byzantine) Empire during the following centuries, but the prosperity they brought lasted only until 614, when Persian armies overtook Judea and reduced Jerusalem to rubble again.
"The residents of the Golan were sent to build their homes opposite Syria with the concurrence of every government since 1967, and the roots they struck in the basalt soil are deeper than those of the settlers in Judea and Samaria," the paper said.
And where a basic occupation centers on livestock, as in Biblical Judea or parts of the American West or the Australian bush, the stockman's jargon is bound to be a main source of metaphors, whether the subject be marital transgression as in the banter at our picnic, or the Lord's providing for His flock as in the Twenty-third Psalm, or national character as in “Waltzing Matilda.”